World Rescue
© 2017 Zu Digital
?An important topic and a great price ($free) help you overlook some of the clumsy design in this game-driven rescue mission that is infused with facts about some of the world's big problems like human displacement, disease, deforestation, drought and pollution. Your job is to help five children move through a board-game style menu to rescue others by moving through mazes or matching items to problems. Progress is bookmarked automatically for one player, using a nicely designed board game-style progress system as a menu. Development costs were supported by UNESCO MGIEP, and the themes come from Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China. There's some reading involved via comic-book style text, which is not necessarily a bad thing. But some of the games are less than responsive or tricky to figure out on the first play. This can be easily overlooked because once you learn the learn the first level, you pretty much know what to do.
iPad, iPhone
Teaches: refugees, United Nations, global problems, famine, social studies, logic, reading
CTR Rating: 84%